Summary for Clinicians: An ATS Clinical Practice Guideline for Initiating Pharmacologic Treatment in Tobacco-Dependent Adults

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
• ² Department of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• ³ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Minnesota University School of Medicine, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• ⁴ Comprehensive Smoking Treatment Program, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• ⁵ Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
• ⁶ American Thoracic Society, New York, New York.
• ⁷ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mount Auburn Hospital/Beth Israel Lahey Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and.
• ⁸ Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.